What’s your “E” in the morning? Is it liquid? Powder? Just high on life?

If it’s liquid and it comes in a can, maybe you’d be doing everyone (including yourself) a favor by knitting up some Megaman E-tank koozies. You’ll help yourself by keeping your hands warm and dry while your favorite bevarine stays cold and you’ll help those around you by showing them that you’re enjoying an energy-enhancing drink. “Hey, I’m having some me time right now but I’ll be all charged up and with you in a moment. Thanks for understanding.”

There aren’t any design plans for actually making the koozies, but it appears that you’ll need black yarn, light blue yarn, and you’ll have to know how to knit the letter E. Seems pretty straightforward – except for the whole knitting thing.

Homemade E-tanks [Capcom-Unity.com via ALBOTAS]

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Anytime netbooks dip below the $200 mark is a good time to buy, no? In that spirit, Sellout.Woot! has the 8.9-inch Eee for just $179, today only (or until they sell out). Specs are sparse, as is to be expected – 4GB SSD, 512MB RAM, Linux — and the systems are refurbished with a 90-day warranty but, hey, cheap couch computer.

Asus EeePC 900 Netbook [Sellout.Woot.com via UMPC Portal]

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Earlier this month we reported that Cisco Systems had acquired Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the popular Flip Video cameras. Today, Cisco officially announced the deal, which was for $590 million in stock. (We had the price at “north of $500 million).

Pure Digital will become part of Cisco’s consumer business group, which includes Linksys home routers and set-top boxes from its acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta. Cisco is calling the Flip cameras a new form of “visual networking,” whatever that means. In reality, the Flip is built for the YouTube generation. It is designed to take videos and immediately upload the to the Web. (Its output is a handy USB stick that flips open and plugs in directly to a computer). In other words, it is a device that encourages activities that consume a lot of bandwidth. As a networking company, Cisco wants you to use as much bandwidth as possible.

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So the other day a new device from Peek called the Pronto was leaked out and Peek wasn’t afraid to disavow any knowledge of it. In fact, they told us what’s been improved on the Pronto!

I don’t have much to say, but I will give a leak away.. it is much, much faster in every way possible. The time to open a menu on 1.08 is .09 seconds. The time to open a menu on Pronto, .04 seconds!!!!

via Geeky Peek

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You know you’re in for a treat when the story you’re reading has, in big red letters, “Please note that this story is based upon rumor and/or speculation.” So let’s begin with that and move on to points rendered.

Manager Magazin in Germany is reporting that both Sony and Ericsson are thinking of shutting down or selling their Sony Ericsson joint venture, a partnership that has thus far spawned little more than a few nice feature phones a whole lot of hype. The company has posted a Q4 2008 loss of $187 million.

Ericsson didn’t comment in the article - and they wouldn’t because it has already negatively affected their stock price - but my feeling is that S-E is ready to fold up shop. This reminds me of BenQ’s slow death. The company had a few interesting ideas but couldn’t breach the atmospheric barrier called Nokia.

If they sold the venture they would presumably sell the handset designs and R&D to the highest bidder.

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